Why the Arts Mattered to President Nixon

Why the Arts Mattered to President Nixon

  In 2013, Oscar winner and House of Cards superstar Kevin Spacey shared some favorable words for Richard Nixon while shedding some light on the efforts of the President to extend federal support for the National Endowment for the Art and Humanities which...

RN and the Arts

In the 1960 campaign, the magazine Musical America sent the presidential candidates a brief questionnaire about arts policy.  Fifty years ago today, RN replied: Our great lack today is not sources of subsidy or an honest desire to promote the arts, but a program for...